Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture - Rilegato

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0674024567 ISBN 13: 9780674024564

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Pain is immediate and searing but remains a deep mystery for sufferers, their physicians, and researchers. As neuroscientific research shows, even the immediate sensation of pain is shaped by psychological state and interpretation. At the same time, many individuals and cultures find meaning, particularly religious meaning, even in chronic and inexplicable pain.

This ambitious interdisciplinary book includes not only essays but also discussions among a wide range of specialists. Neuroscientists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, musicologists, and scholars of religion examine the ways that meditation, music, prayer, and ritual can mediate pain, offer a narrative that transcends the sufferer, and give public dignity to private agony. They discuss topics as disparate as the molecular basis of pain, the controversial status of gate control theory, the possible links between the relaxation response and meditative practices in Christianity and Buddhism, and the mediation of pain and intense emotion in music, dance, and ritual. The authors conclude by pondering the place of pain in understanding--or the human failure to understand--good and evil in history.

Su questo libro

Product Description

The Interface of Biology and Culture

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674024567
• ISBN 13: 9780674024564
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 439
• Redattore: Coakley Sarah, Shelemay Kay Kaufman
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Amazon EU Sarl; 0; www.amazon.com; ; 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; 0; L-1855; Lussemburgo